What Every Product Development Manager and Executive Need to Know about Product Testing for Unexpected Wear & Tear

	Richard M. (Dick) Haney of the CMT Group, a technology consulting company in Palo Alto, CA., specializes in product engineering, manufacturing and technical management consulting.
	*"Handling during such 'normal' activities throughout a product's life will occur in many environmental situations that may not be customarily considered by the product developer."*

This is a companion article to:

What Every Product Development Manager and Executive Need to Know About EMC
What Every Product Development Manager and Executive Need to Know about Product Safety

When you are defining a new product or upgrading an existing product and you've taken into account the competitive, user, market, industry, legal, and regulatory issues, are you finished with the product definition? Well� if you have not considered subtle wear and tear the product undoubtedly will experience in various user and environmental situations, then you have one more step to take before being finished. To those product developers, managers and executives who don't usually think about the nuances of why and how to think about generating product specifications to characterize performance and reliability under unanticipated use in unanticipated environments - this article is for you. Also, those generally interested in product development methodologies may find some useful guidance herein.

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